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Due to the current media blitz on the subject of waterboarding as a torture tactic, several enterprising individuals have decided to open a "waterboarding club." "It's kind of like the fight clubs that are springing up on the Eastern Seaboard," stated Ulrich, one of the owners who prefered to remain out of the limelight. "Dude, like some people think this kind of thing is like torture, you know what I mean? But it ain't that bad, no, not really. But like me and my partner here, Igor, wanted to see if it was all that gruelling. I mean, at first, sure we like thought we were going under, but we held our breath and tried to think of pleasant pictures, pin-up of bathing beauties and you know, hot cars and mansions, all the fun stuff, you know. Hey, like we came through it okay," he continued. His associate mentioned that he figured that the undercover agents had been around because one guy who was driving a black Suburban and wearing shades came in and axed us if we could like maybe do a slight boarding on his ex to find out if she was cheating on him and stuff like that, you know what I mean? And we said, 'hell no, man,' cause we are law-abiding. We ain't open yet cause we are waiting for an answer from the city. They axed what kind of business it was and we figured it was like a watersports club." Asked if they had a name figured out for the new business, the two men chuckled and replied that had considered calling it "Truth or Consequences."
This modern city of Truth or Consequences - so named after the Radio and TV show of the same now. It is located midway between El Paso, Texas and Albuquerque, New Mexico on U.S. 85, the fame "Pan-American Highway," T or C, for short, is the largest city and county seat of Sierra County. It is a health resort and was originally known as Hot Springs due to underlining of hot racks giving and uninterrupted supply of Hot Mineral Water.
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The lobby of the original main post office in Truth or Consequences, New Mexico has a very beautiful wall mural painted in 1940 by Boris Deutsch, titled "Indian Bear Dance". This painting was part of the WPA project.
My happy place. Sidewinder to Mescal Canyon. 6 mile loop. #truthorconsequences #torc #newmexico #ultrarunning #trailrunning #canyon
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A big storm hit T or C this weekend precluding us from taking the kayak out onto Elephant Butte. As it was nearby to everything in downtown T or C, we ducked into the Geronimo Springs museum to get out of the rain.
Top crock is warming a water kefir @ 75F. This was started originally from a commercial bottle and is now going strong in it's own (no grains). First batch had an apple finish this batch will be orange. Middle crock is warming a half gallon of ginger beer with tumeric. It is alive and bubbly. I will use a orange finish on this as well during bottling to get some citrus in there. #fermentation #temperaturecontroller #yatc5 #newmexico #truthorconsequences #waterkefir #glutenfree #dairyfree #vegan #vegetarian Buy this temperature controller here: screwdecaf.cx/yatc.html
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BL-25 south at NM-118. Merge right for BL-25 to Truth or Consequences business district.
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to Spaceport America, for the time being anyway.
With tickets for a ride on SpaceShipTwo (where your survival is not guaranteed) going for a quarter of a million dollars and tour rides out to Spaceport America (where you don't even get to go inside) going for $50 a pop, we opted for a look at the visitor center. We did survive, we went inside, and it was free, until we bought a souvenir cap. Score!
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Thanksgiving 2015 - Las Cruces, New Mexico
November 28th: space and cranes on the road home
At a truck stop near Truth Or Consequences NM. I think this is the correct identification, but open to suggestions.
Prepped out 5th and final raised bed for seeding transplants. More garden pics to come. Our two primary beds are looking amazing. #garden #spring #2016 #truthorconsequences #torc #newmexico #nm
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This is a picture from my stay at Riverbend Hot Springs in Truth or Consequences, New Mexico.
You can read more about my visit to the resort at the link.
Truth or Consequences is a spa city in Sierra County, New Mexico. Originally called Hot Springs, the area took its unique name from a gameshow challenge in the 1950s.
This photo depicts a place called Riverbend Hot Springs where we stayed overnight a couple of times. It's the best place to wake up in the morning to have a soak in the hot springs and watch the sun come up over the Rio Grande.
Truth or Consequences, New Mexico
This modern city of Truth or Consequences - so named after the Radio and TV show of the same name. It is located midway between El Paso, Texas and Albuquerque, New Mexico on U.S. 85, the fame "Pan-American Highway," T or C, for short, is the largest city and county seat of Sierra County. It is a health resort and was originally known as Hot Springs due to underlining of hot racks giving and uninterrupted supply of Hot Mineral Water.
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Surface water is scarce in southern New Mexico and west Texas, so there have been many efforts to capture and distribute it over the years. One of the most significant water reclamation projects in the region is this structure, Elephant Butte Dam on the Rio Grande.
The first serious proposal for a dam on the lower Rio Grande began in the late 1890s. A group of private investors created the Rio Grande Dam & Irrigation Company with the goal to build a small dam on the river to serve farmers in the region. The Mexican government objected to the project because there were no plans to share any of the water across the international border. The US government agreed and the company’s project was consequently scuttled.
The idea for a dam was revived by the U.S. Reclamation Service in 1903. Over the following years, a water distribution treaty was signed with Mexico, funding for a dam from Congress was obtained, and a site at the town of Engle, NM (north of Hot Springs) was chosen. Construction began in 1911 and was completed in 1916.
The structure is 301 feet high and 1674 feet long and remains New Mexico’s largest man-made dam. At the time of completion, the lake that formed behind it was the largest man-made reservoir in the world. It’s also historic because it is the first civil engineering project deliberately designed for the international distribution of water. Today, the waters that flow through this dam are used to irrigate about 178,000 acres of farmland downstream.
Unfortunately, persistent drought has caused the reservoir’s water levels to drop to alarmingly low levels. At the time I took this image, the reservoir was at about 15% of its average storage volume. Even so, a decision was made to open it up and send water gushing downstream, as can be seen in lower left. It was at the critical time for agricultural production in southern New Mexico and ag is a big industry in the region. I would guess that there was a lot of political pressure on the managers to release what water they could.
See my image and description of Elephant Butte Reservoir for a little more on drought and the long-term problems of water in the region.
Elephant Butte Reservoir dates back to 1916 when the US Reclamation Service completed construction of a major dam on the Rio Grande north of Hot Springs, New Mexico.
The name for it comes from the butte, a basaltic intrusion, that resembles the head of an elephant (see the right side of this image and imagine you are looking at the left-side profile of an elephant’s head).
The reservoir has a capacity of about 2.0M acre feet or about 652B gallons of water. Most of the water originates as snowmelt from the southern Rockies and runoff from the summer monsoon rains via the Rio Grande. A lot of it is used to irrigate about 178,000 acres of farmland in south-central New Mexico and West Texas.
As you can see from the “bathtub rings” along the lakeshore, the inflow of water has not been abundant. When I took this northward-looking image in July 2014, it was at about 15% of the reservoir’s average storage volume.
In fact, Elephant Butte has been below its capacity since 2001. It’s not alone. Although there have been several good years in terms of snowfall and the summer monsoon rains during this period, the general precipitation trend across the US Southwest has been downward. Consequently, most reservoirs from California to Oklahoma look a lot like this one.
The future does not look promising, either. Climatologists have been developing increasingly sophisticated models to predict precipitation for the region and the results suggest more of the same, perhaps worse.
In the October 2014 issue of the Journal of Climate , Toby Ault et al. published a study in which they used climate model projections as well as observational information to predict the probabilities of long-term droughts in the US Southwest and elsewhere (“Assessing the Risk of Persistent Drought Using Climate Model Simulations and Paleoclimate Data,” p. 7547). They conclude the following: “In [the southwestern US] where high-quality proxy records of hydroclimate have been used to constrain the underlying features of hydroclimate on decadal and longer time scales, the risk of decadal drought [this century] is at least 70% and may be higher than 90%.”
Also see my image of Elephant Butte Dam for more on this history of this place.
This was the first set of mines we found, not real deep, but big enough.
Today Joey and I rode our bikes to palomas gap and we discovered some mines. We spent most of the day riding the rocky narrow roads until we had to leave because it was getting dark. Tomorrow we will ride up the canyon again and we will hit some deeper, bigger mines yet!